"What? Look a little suspicious of you? ”

The old man has lived a lifetime, and naturally he can see his inner thoughts just from Wu Ling's expression.

"It's really a little bit unbelievable, I admit the power of the dream controller, but ordinary hypnotists can't do this at all!" Wu Ling said directly.

"Indeed!" Nodding, the old man didn't admit it, but then, he changed his words and said: "Ordinary hypnotists really can't do this, but because of the appearance of a person and an object, everything has changed for hypnotists!" ”

"Who?" Being able to start a profession, or to be able to change a profession, regardless of the profession itself, but the person who changed all of that is definitely a great person.

"Milton. Erickson! The old man said a name lightly.

"Milton. Erickson? Who's this? Originally, I thought that the other party was a very familiar name, but at this time, Wu Ling realized that he didn't know about this person's situation at all.

"What, you don't even know who he is? What a lonely boy! Hearing Wu Ling say this, the old man couldn't help but jump up all of a sudden, and shouted at Wu Ling even more angrily than just now.

In fact, this is really Wu Ling is a little unheard, in fact, not only in the hypnosis world, even in the general psychological medical field, Milton. Erickson's reputation is all resounding.

This is a unique figure of influence in the history of psychotherapy. Although he did not study under a famous artist, he tempered himself to become a leading figure in the field of hypnosis in the twentieth century, and he was also the founder of short-term psychotherapy. Many argue that Sigmund Freud's contribution lies in the theory of therapy, and Erickson's contribution lies in the practice of therapy. Erickson has published more cases in the psychotherapy literature than any clinician; He has invented more techniques than any other practitioner, and some of his inventions remain unexplained to this day.

Erickson's understanding of psychotherapy is outstanding, and Mr. Hao Bin, a well-known psychologist in China, said in his book "Hypnosis and Psychological Stress Release" that Milton. Erickson is the most creative and flexible psychotherapist. He was a pragmatist, obsessed with human resilience and limitless potential. He explores how people can change. He is not a theorist who tries to portray what people are as they are. Erickson's unique talent lies not only in his ability to identify the root cause of dysfunction or problem, but also in his ability to identify factors that hinder a patient's recovery. He would then devise ways to intervene to remove those obstacles quickly. Erickson is the father of modern medical hypnosis and has extraordinary insights in the development of new hypnotic induction methods and applications. He is the co-author of five books on hypnosis and has published more than 130 professional articles, most of which are on hypnotherapy. He was the founder and first president of the American Society of Clinical Hypnosis, and founded and edited the American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis, the official journal of the Society, for ten years. He travels extensively to give lectures on hypnosis to professionals, especially in the United States, and he is known as "Mr. Hypnosis". Erickson has legalized hypnosis so that it is no longer a "clown in the halls of serious academics".

Erickson also has an amazing vitality. He suffered from many physical ailments, including long-term pain. When the sick come to him, they are confronted with a man who has endured as much suffering as they did, perhaps even more than they have suffered. However, he was happy and spread his joy with a living gesture. When he encourages his patients to appreciate life and to transcend pain and limitations, his patients know that he is using his own personal experience to give them advice and help. Erickson has a serious physical illness, his shoulders used to be one high and one low, in order to be like ordinary people, he stood in front of the mirror, with his own unique hypnosis theory, and basically restored his shoulders to the shape of ordinary people, but because of this, his vertebrae were seriously damaged and twisted, at the age of 79, he lived to nearly 80 years old with a strong mind, I think his own existence is an amazing and touching miracle.

Erickson is a world-famous genius hypnotist who has achieved legal status for hypnosis, so that hypnosis is no longer "the clown of the serious academic temple"; He is known all over the world as a great medical hypnotist, often known for miraculously curing patients who were considered "hopeless", and as such, he is considered to be an outstanding innovator, a hypnotic leader who completely subverted tradition and injected new elements into hypnosis and psychotherapy; He is the father of modern medical hypnosis and has extraordinary insights in the development of new hypnotic induction methods and applications. Although he has been dead for 32 years, no one has surpassed him in the field of hypnosis.

Erickson approaches each patient as a counselor, analyst, appraiser, arbiter, advocate, motivator, spiritual mentor, accepting authority, or strict parent, emphasizing that each individual has a unique surname, that each person is motivated by unique needs and different modes of defense, and that each person needs an original model of intervention rather than orthodox, imaginative and dogmatic treatment. He thinks that himself, his words, his tone of voice, the way he speaks, and the use of his body movements as a medium of influence can all induce change.

He was interested in practical change rather than theory, and he saw traditional theory as an obstacle that tied the therapist to a completely hopeless bedrock. To this end, he insinuates, tricks, and conspires with a large number of individualized multi-level communication spying, verbal and non-verbal messages, in order to make the patient feel the effects of the situation without being fully aware of the situation. Sometimes he doesn't succeed, but it just gives him a new stimulus to overcome the patient's resistance to using potential resources and potential for change.

Erickson will often show support for the patient's illness and defense when the patient shows obvious resistance, or he will give the patient seemingly peculiar, unrelated tasks. He will provide very common advice and common sense treatments, making good use of these obvious principles. Instead, he uses metaphors and indirect inducements that don't cut directly to the point. He creates situations that "allow patients to spontaneously understand the potential for change that they have not previously discovered." But they all have one purpose: to confuse patients enough to force them to open their hearts and see things differently. The technologies are not pre-chosen, but they are all adapted to the exigenies of the situation. Hypnosis is used in situations that are effective in facilitating healing. While personality and values change has always been seen as a desirable goal to achieve sooner or later, his immediate goal is to alleviate symptoms and solve problems.

Some psychotherapists are almost blind to Erickson's adoration, where every word, emotion, opinion, or action is seen as instructive. Healers who worship Erickson as a god rooted in the expectation of omniscience and omnipotence will eventually lead to disillusionment; It would be equally prejudiced to see Erickson as a rebellious healer, to think that his shocking methods are just a passing fad, and that they will eventually be discarded. These attitudes do not do justice to a highly creative, imaginative and original thinker, and he does come up with a whole new approach to some of the most difficult psychotherapy problems. Erickson is an astonishing machine of influence, born through a long period of hard work to navigate his painful physical disability. His courage, acuity, awareness, and unique mode of adaptation make him an "unusual healer".

Unfortunately, however, his method combines his "unusual" personality traits and style of work, making it difficult for the average therapist to imitate, digest and apply. For the average person, there are considerable difficulties in integrating Erickson's approach into their own treatment, and one of the difficulties is that it requires considerable effort.

Erickson is quite rigorous in his approach, and he strives to develop himself into an effective communicator. His treatment stands up to scrutiny more than any other therapist. He precisely designs verbal and non-verbal strategies to elicit maximum therapeutic response. His effective surname is based on his cultivation of awareness of subtle things; He trains himself to find subtle clues that reveal the patient's strengths – strengths that can be used to solve problems.

In some ways, he approaches the case like a great detective. Once Erickson shows how the problem is solved, the whole picture is clearly visible, and important clues are always obvious to the observant, and they can be identified by common sense.

The second difficulty lies in the fact that many of his behaviors have become self-contained in the intuitive surname, and his distinction and application of intuitive surnames in language patterns, the understanding and application of intuitive surnames in the representational system, the distinction and application of intuitive surnames in the functions of the left and right brains, as well as the distinction and application of structure and content, and his identification and differentiation of many subtle physiological reactions, etc., did not even understand the truth of these theories before these theories were proposed. Therefore, it is very difficult for ordinary people to learn his hypnotic mode; These are the reasons why no one in the field of hypnosis has surpassed him, even though he has been dead for 26 years.

It is said that geniuses have an unusual space for growth, and Erickson is naturally the same, and the biggest influence on him should belong to rural life.

Milton. Erickson has a typical outward tendency. He is active in his environment and has never been lost in his inner world. When you appear in front of him, you feel that all his attention is on you alone, which is at the same time an honor and comfort, but it can also often feel nervous.

Milton. Erickson often plays the role of an "interested observer", and he also has a tendency to be socially distancing. He values ** and is by no means the kind of person you can make small talk with about current events and sports.

But when he's at work, you definitely don't feel his alienation; You will feel his enthusiasm and attention to you personally, which does not mean that he makes people feel completely safe, complete security is a stumbling block to change. Although I could feel comfortable with his warm sense of security, and as he tried to help me discover my talents through my personal qualities, I never felt completely at ease with him. People who work with Erickson often feel "dizzy", partly because they are aware of the impact they are going to give you, but it is a "harmless sense of uncertainty" that you can benefit from, even if you are out of balance.

He is an extremely confident person who does not seem to know what social phobia is, and he seems quite comfortable with the power he wields, but he also has a witty side, and he is considered to have been the first to bring humor into orthodox psychotherapy. He also uses humor to package hypnotic induction. Traditionally, hypnosis and humor have been incompatible, and Erickson was the first to combine humor as part of orthodox psychotherapy. For example, he jokingly said to a patient with a dangling arm: "Have you ever been lifted up by a weirdo to keep it in mid-air?" ”

The childlike surprise and trust naturally became an extension of his therapeutic characteristics: he trusted people and also in their subconscious health**; He believes that patients have inner wisdom that can be stimulated. He told a story about helping a patient prepare for a professional exam, where he asked the patient to quickly skim through the textbook and jot down a concept on each page, with the goal of stimulating his subconscious mind and boosting his memory.

Milton. One of the reasons Erickson is so interested in the subconscious and hypnosis may be because they are directly responsible for his painful life. He often used hypnosis to control his pain when Milton. When Erickson self-hypnotized to control pain, he didn't guide himself in a rigid way; Instead, he gives the subconscious a comfortable thought, and then roams along with the hints he receives. He told me about a signal system that he had devised to keep an eye on his thumb in the morning in his later years, and if it was between the little finger and the ring finger, it meant that he had fought with a lot of effort and pain last night. If the thumb is between the ring finger and the middle finger, it means that the pain is not so bad at night; If it's between the middle and index fingers, it means it's less painful. In this way, he can tell how much energy he still has to deal with the day's work. He knows that the subconscious mind is capable of acting autonomously.

After graduating from medical school, he used many methods to train himself, and the main part of his self-study was the important surname of socialization.

Over the years, after performing mental health check-ups for patients, Milton . Erickson would write down the patient's social history with a hypothetical surname, that is, to speculate what the patient's social history might look like. He would then compare the real social history he had learned from the social work system with his own speculation. He will also speculate backwards, first knowing the real social history, based on which he constructs the results of a mental health examination with a hypothetical surname, and then compares them with the real results. He used this technique on many patients until he had a comprehensive understanding of social development. Also, while Milton. While working primarily with individuals, Erikson thinks from a family systems perspective, which he believes is an important part of therapy (to be continued). )